WordPress VIP

WordPress VIP is Automattic's enterprise platform for newsrooms, banks, telecoms, and Fortune 500 brands running WordPress at scale. Sites on VIP carry a different operational shape than self-hosted WordPress — managed code review, restricted plugin and function lists, two-factor deploys, and SLAs measured against publication minutes, not pageviews. Working on VIP means writing PHP that survives a 9 a.m. content-team push during a breaking-news event, debugging through Varnish and Batcache rather than around them, and treating the deploy pipeline as a first-class part of the product. The Postmedia network and BlackBerry's blog properties were both on VIP during the work I did with them — the engineering bar is closer to running a small SaaS than to a typical agency build.